Silence
1. Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence
2. Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.
Praise and Thanksgiving
1. Think through your day, all the times that made you smile
2. Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people
Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)
1. Pray for the Holy Spirit to shine on you that you are able to discover your sins and be willing to repent:
“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”
"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."
“Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”
2. Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:
"Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."
The Word, Time with Abba (Psalm 9:13-20, Genesis 31:17-32:12; Matthew 10:26-11:6; Proverbs 3:16-18)
Bible link:http://api.pastoralcareschool.org/twa/
Today's main passages:
Lord, see how my enemies persecute me!
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of Daughter Zion,
and there rejoice in your salvation. Psalm 9:13-14
Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
14 that I may declare your praises
in the gates of Daughter Zion,
and there rejoice in your salvation. Psalm 9:13-14
23 Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. 24 Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
25 Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too.
29 I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.”
Genesis 31:23-25, 29, 42
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passages we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him.
My Listening
The topic I received today from Jesus is:
The topic I received today from Jesus is:
"O you who lift me up from the gates of death!"
If you have experienced being saved from the gates of death, do you have a new attitude to care for other people and things? Do you have a new relationship with the Lord that you always long to be with Him?
Today's Genesis 31:24,29,42 tells us that God really would act like what it is described in today's Psalm. He listened to the cry of His children and He will act! "Those who kill will be killed"!
God warned Laban not to harm Jacob! God sent many angels to encamp around Jacob to help him and protect him!
Today Jesus led me to count all those blessings of how He lifted me up from the gates of death many times:
Do you believe the promise God gives you now?
How important it is to you of today's Psalm 9:13 "O you who lift me up from the gates of death!"?
Have you been lifted up from the gates of death?
Today's Genesis 31:24,29,42 tells us that God really would act like what it is described in today's Psalm. He listened to the cry of His children and He will act! "Those who kill will be killed"!
God warned Laban not to harm Jacob! God sent many angels to encamp around Jacob to help him and protect him!
Today Jesus led me to count all those blessings of how He lifted me up from the gates of death many times:
1. 3 years old - When I was three years old I had an emergency operation to remove my appendix, but the appendix already bursted out and develop to be peritonitis. That was the 50s and the hope to be healed was almost zero. I was in Kowloon Hospital for a month.
God saved me from the gates of death!
2. 14 years old - I was in Grade 8 and got very bad school report. I wanted to kill myself! But, there was an angel told me something very important and I did not do that foolish act.
God saved me from the gates of death!
3. 31 years old - Michelle and I had a car accident. When our car lost control in high speed and ran down the slope of a Highway, Michelle and I saw an angel like a big wooden post in front of our car and it slowed the speed of the car. When we went out the car at the bottom of the Highway bridge, we saw no wooden post nor any sign in the front of the car of hitting anything.
God saved Michelle and I from the gates of death!
4. 47 years old - Michelle got acute leukaemia, nearly died but recovered after three chemotherapy!
God saved Michelle from the gates of death!
And I can name more!
How about you? How many times did you experienced God saving act to lift you up from the gates of death?
Do you believe the promise God gives you now?
I will be with you, no one can harm you!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help me to be very sure that you will be with me and no one or nothing can harm me because I know you, be with you and rely on you everyday. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Reflect on these questions:
1. How many times did you experience God's saving act to lift you up from the gates of death?
2. What kind of faith do you have with Jesus? Are you sure that God will be with you and no one or nothing can harm you?
Family Corner:
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